[zaroth]

So roughly 5 cents of energy to autonomously pilot a 2 ton vehicle with several human occupants through a relatively hostile and uncontrolled environment…

At scale safe autonomous driving will be saving 100k lives and eliminating over a trillion of dollars in economic losses per year.

This is a minuscule amount of energy expended for the results achieved by any reasonable standard!

[JohnFen]

I agree with your opinion, but disagree with measuring power use in terms of monetary cost. Doing it that way excludes most of the actual cost of power generation and use.